George Kurtz is a championship-winning endurance racer and one of the world’s top LMP2 competitors. With more than 15 seasons of elite competition and hundreds of starts across global series, he has built a reputation for winning at the highest levels of international motorsport.
In 2026, Kurtz has already captured the overall victory at the iconic Rolex 24 at Daytona, one of the sport’s most prestigious endurance races. He is also a two-time Asian Le Mans Championship LMP2 Champion (2023–2024, 2025–2026), underscoring his dominance on the global prototype stage.
Kurtz delivered a career-defining season in 2023 securing the GT World Challenge Team and Drivers’ Championships alongside Colin Braun and Riley Motorsport. He delivered 12 wins across five series, claimed the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup title in his LMP2 debut, and earned a class victory at the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans.
A recipient of IMSA’s Trueman Cup and Sportscar365’s Bronze Prototype Driver of the Year honors, Kurtz competes in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship while also taking on the sport’s most demanding global stage at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, representing CrowdStrike Racing at the forefront of international endurance racing.
Off the track, Kurtz is the CEO and Founder of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD). Under his leadership, CrowdStrike has become the global security leader, pioneering cloud-native cybersecurity and defining security for the AI era.
A world-renowned expert in security strategy and adversary tradecraft, Kurtz has spent over 30 years developing transformational technologies. From founding the incident response trailblazer Foundstone to his time as Worldwide CTO of McAfee, his career has been defined by a unique ability to commercialize innovation at scale.
He is also the co-author of the industry-defining bestseller, “Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions,” and remains a frequent expert contributor for major media outlets like CNBC, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
Whether on the track or at the helm of a global tech giant, Kurtz is driven by a singular goal: winning for his customers, his team, and his shareholders.